[Tutor] (no subject)

[Glen Bunting]

Thanks, now that I've got that figured out, how do I put teh values key and
value into a dictionary.  

>>> import string
>>> dict {}
>>> CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').readlines()
>>> for eachLine in CONFIG:
...     key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
...	  dict = {key, value}

but when I do that, only the last values are saved in the dictionary.  All
the previous ones are erased.  

Glen 



-----Original Message-----
From: Deirdre Saoirse [mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:11 PM
To: Glen Bunting
Cc: 'Daniel Yoo'; 'tutor@python.org'
Subject: RE: [Tutor] (no subject)


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Glen Bunting wrote:

> When I make the changes:
>
> >>> import string
> >>> CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').readlines()
> >>> for eachLine in CONFIG:
> ...     key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
> ...     print 'The key is : ', key
> ...
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
> What does that mean and what am I doing wrong?

It means that one of your lines doesn't have two elements when split.

You can fix this by:
 try:
  key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
 else:
  key = eachLine
  value = ''



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